David Bohn

John and Janet Chantry had a dream of leaving behind the frigid temperatures of Toronto and running a boutique hotel in an exotic setting. In 2015 they decided to make it happen.

When Kelly Brower left California to set up Medusa, her hair cutting shop in Dominical, Costa Rica, she had no idea of the impact she was about to have on this little surfing village.

The next best thing to living in a wildlife park is living next to one, right? Manuel Antonio is one of the most famous tourist attractions in Costa Rica. However, unless you’re a world-class fisherman, the adjoining town of Quepos often goes unnoticed.

Nothing beats the diagnosis of an incurable disease for putting the spurs to a plan. When my wife Christine and I left the neurologist’s office in Charleston after being told she had Parkinson’s disease, our trip home to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina began in tears and anger, but then turned to some serious strategic planning…